Tuesday, April 8, 2014

Africa39 List includes Novuyo Rosa Tshuma

We were thrilled to learn today that Novuyo Rosa
Tshuma is included in the Africa39 list - a list of 39 of the most promising
African writers of fiction from sub-Saharan Africa under the age of 40. The
Africa39 Project was set up as a key part of the programmes and celebrations of
Port Harcourt UNESCO World Book Capital 2014. The project is a partnership
between the Hay Festival of Literature, the Arts Ltd UK and the Rainbow Book
Club in Port Harcourt.

We first got to know Novuyo when we
were involved in the British Council Identity and Diversity project. As part of
the project we published two anthologies of short stories and poems - ‘Echoes
of Young Voices’ and ‘Silent Cry’. Novuyo’s short stories appeared in both the
collections. So started a long standing friendship with Novuyo. In 2011 we
published ’Where to Now? Short Stories from Zimbabwe’, which included
‘Crossroads’ by Novuyo. This collection has recently been translated into
isiNdebele, as Siqondephi Manje?, and the isiNdebele translation of Novuyo’s story is titled
'Kwandlela ziyaphambana’. ‘Crossroads’ later appeared in ‘Shadows’ Novuyo’s
first collection - a novella and short stories.

Last year we were fortunate to travel to Kenya with
Novuyo as the Zimbabwe representatives to a workshop being held there.
The programme in Kenya was organised to celebrate the British Council’s
partnership with Granta, the UK’s leading literary magazine on their
announcement of the “Best of Young British Novelists 4”. One of these “Best of Young British Novelists”, Nadifa Mohamed, is also on the Africa39 list.

Running in parallel with a workshop for publishers on
“Promoting New Writers”, which we attended, was a fiction writing workshop in
which Novuyo participated. Novuyo joined writers from Kenya, Nigeria, South
Africa and Uganda.

Novuyo is currently a Maytag Fellow in Creative
Writing at the University of Iowa. There will be many more stories flowing from
her pen.

Congratulations also to the other 38 writers on
the list, which includes a few other writers we've been pleased to publish in recent Caine Prize anthologies: Rotimi Babatunde, Tope Folarin, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Stanley Kenani and Mehul Gohil; and Clifton Gachagua, who will be published in this year's anthology.

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